Hog-nose cutter



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W. B. LYON.

HUG NOSE UUTTER. I No. 248.766. v Patented Oct. 25,.1881.,

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Ilrrno STATES IVILLIAM B. LYON, OF PONTIAC, ILLINOIS.

HOG-NOSE CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,766, dated October 25, 1881,

Application filed April 2, 1881.

jaw for cutting the tendon and splitting the hogs rooter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved instrument to operate on hogs to preventtheln from rooting. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the knife.

Thejaw A of the pair of nippers B is elongated and provided with a hook U, at the end, and the other jaw, D, is provided with a U- shaped knife, E, which cuts against a metal block or plate, F, on the jaw A. Thejaw A is provided with a setscrew, G, to protect the edge of the knife E from being dulled and battered. The shanks II and J are separated by a spring, K, attached to one of the shanks.

The nippers are used in the following manner: An incision about one inch long is made with a pocket-knife or any other suitable cutting-instrument in the nose of the 110g, close to the side of each tendon, for stiffening the l0OtOI,I\VO of which tendons are in the nose of the hog. The hook O is inserted in each incision successively, and the tendons are seized and raised by means of the hook, which is moved along under the tendon until the jaw A is under the tendon and the same rests on the plate Fthat is to say, is raised and not released; but the hook is passed farther under the tendon until the same rests on the plate F,

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which is fastened to the jaw A. This can be accomplished, as the hook (J and jaw A are made in one pirce, and thereis nothingto prevent the tendon sliding along the connecting piece of metal. Th us it will be seen that the device is simple in its construction, so as to cost as little as possible in manufacture, certain and eit'ective in its operation, and withal reaching the object in view with the least possible physical pain to the pig. The nippers are then closed, and apiece of the tendon as long as the width of the knife E will be cut out of the tendon. The out in the nose of the hog will heal in a few days A piece ot' the rooter as large as the knife E can also be cut outwith these nippers, so as to make it absolutely impossible for the animal to root.

The tendons that have been cut in the manner described can never grow together again.

Thenippers can also be used as an ear-marker to cut a piece as large as the knife E out of the animals ear.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire. to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Nippers for operating on hogs to prevent them from rooting, consisting of a pair of nippers with an elongated jaw, having a hook at the end with a knife on the other jaw, as set forth.

2. In nippers for openatingon ho 'sto prevent them from rooting, the combination, with the nippers B, having a book, 0, at the end of the elongated jaw A, of the knife E on the jaw]), the plate F on thejawA, and the set-screWGr, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

\VILLIAM BROWN LYON.

Witnesses:

H. G. GREENEBAUM, W. 'l. VIRDEN. 

